Separable fastener and means for securing its socket to carrying fabrics



F. S. CARR.

SEPARABLE FASTENER AND MEANS FOR SECURING ITS SOCKET T0 CARRYING FABRICS. APPLICATION FILEDJAN. I6. I920.

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SEPARABLE FASTENER AN D MEAN S FOR SECURING- ITS SOCKET TO CARRYING l FABRICS.

Patented M 9, 1921.

Application filed January 16, 1920. Serial No. 351,795.

T 0 all to boom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED S. CARR, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Separable Fasteners and Means for Securing Their Sockets to Carrying Fabrics, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention pertains to improvements in separable fasteners, and more particularly, though not exclusively, to improvements in the securing of the sockets of separable fasteners to their carrying fabrics.

In the drawings, which show a preferred embodiment of one illustrative form of my invention:

Figure 1 is a transverse section through the preferred formof stud and socket;

Fig. 2 illustrates diagrammatically the relative position of the socket and socketsecuring means with the socketcarrying fabric prior to attachment of the socket to the fabric;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the preferred form of socket-securing means; and

Fig. e is a plan view of the preferredform of socket prior to attachment thereof to the socket-carrying fabric.

Referring to the drawings and to the preferred form of my invention selected for illustrative purposes, I have shown a stud 5 which may be secured to its fabric 6 in any suitable way, but preferably in the manner illustrated, which is claimed in my co-pending application Serial No. 351,7 80, filed herewith, and a socket casing 7, which may contain the usual spring 8 of the type shown in my co-pending application, Serial No.

851,780, filed herewith. The socket is preferably provided with distortable projections 9, which are preferably straight in the planes in which they are to be distorted, the distortion preferably being effected in an inward direction. The preferred form tradesmening socket-securing means includes a ring providing a part or parts 10 adapted to underlie the distortable projections 9 when distorted inwardly, and also preferably an anvil portion 11 adapted to bend the distortable projections 9 inwardly when the socket casmg and socket casing securmg elements are pressed together. The part 11 is preferably extended at 12 to bring the socket-carrying fabric 13 into adjacency to the front face of.

the socket, and preferably also into adja cency to the stud-carrying fabric 6.

When the socket casing is to be secured to its fabric, the parts are assembled in the general relation shown in Fig. 2, the socket being pressed against the socket-securing element by any suitable means, typified by the dies 14c and 15. The preferred form of socket-securing means herein illustrated takes the form of a rlng having both its inner and outer marginal portions projectingtowa-rd the casing, the inner m arglnal huter marginal portion.

It w11l be understood only woven materials, but any flexible carrylng medium. 7 e

While I have shown and described a preportion extending outwardly within the u that I; use the word I i -fabric in its broader sense to include not ferred form of one embodiment of'myinyention, it will be understood that changes involving omission, substitution, alteration and reversal of parts, and even changes in the mode of operation, may be made wlthout departing from the scope of my invention,- which is best defined in the following claims.

Claims: I

1. A socket for separable fasteners comprising a casing having projections thereon, distortable inwardly, and easing securing means on the opposite side of .the socket-oarrying fabric over which said projections may be bent with the fabric interposed between the casing securing means and the projections on the casing.

2. A socket for-separable fasteners comprising a casing having projections thereon, distortable inwardly, and easing securing means on the opposite side of the socket-carrying fabric over which said projections may be bent with the fabric interposed between the casing securing means and the projections on the casing, said casing securing means also including an outward flange for projecting the fabric toward the plane of the face of the casing. I

3. A socket for separable fasteners comprising a casing having deflect/able projections, said casing generally rounded in plan bntsaid deflectable projections straight in the portions which are to be deflected, and casing securing means on the opposite side of the socket-carrying fabric, said securing means having an anvil portion for deflecting said projections and means for engagement means for engagement therewith.

FRED S. CARR. 

